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Gartner Executive Programs Survey of More Than 2,300 CIOs Reveals Many Are Unprepared For Digitalization: The Third Era Of Enterprise IT

Press Release | Gartner | January 14, 2014

Digitalization, the third era of enterprise IT, is beginning, but most CIOs do not feel prepared for this next era, according to a global survey of CIOs by Gartner, Inc.'s Executive Programs. The survey showed that many CIOs feel overwhelmed by the prospect of building digital leadership while renovating the core of IT infrastructure and capability for the digital future. [...] Read More »

GEICO Prepares To Take IAM To New Levels

Peter Cummings | ForgeRock | July 19, 2013

GEICO the third-largest private passenger auto insurer, serving more that 12 million private passenger customers, have selected the Open Identity Stack from ForgeRock to help them take IAM to the next level. Read More »

Github To White House: Open Source Your HealthCare.gov Code And Let Us Help

Christina Farr | VentureBeat | November 1, 2013

Healthcare.gov has been referred to by the national press as “excruciatingly embarrassing,” “a poster child for the federal government’s technical ineptitude,” and “a mess.” [...] Silicon Valley’s technology entrepreneurs have described in recent interviews how they would have approached the project differently from the start. Read More »

Government CIOs Have More Clout, Shorter Terms

Brittany Ballenstedt | Nextgov | August 23, 2013

Government chief information officers stay in their positions one year less on average than their private sector peers, according to new research by Gartner. Read More »

Harris Corporation Unveils FusionFX - Advanced Healthcare Integration Platform

Press Release | Harris Corporation, Presence Health | February 24, 2014

Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS), an international communications and information technology company, launched an advanced integration platform for healthcare providers worldwide during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) conference being held February 23-27 in Orlando, Florida. Read More »

HBR: Redefining The Patient Experience With Collaborative Care

Leonard L. Berry and Jamie Dunham | MRA Alerts and Updates | September 20, 2013

It’s a common patient complaint about the people involved in their care: “Sometimes the left hand doesn’t seem to know what the right hand is doing. I don’t feel everyone is working together.” To address this issue, nurses at ThedaCare employed lean techniques to create a patient-centered, team-based model that’s producing solid results. Read More »

Health Care M&A Spending Grows In Q2 2013, Compared With Q1 2013, According To Irving Levin Associates, Inc.

Staff Writer | Irving Levin Associates. Inc. | July 29, 2013

Health care merger and acquisition activity strengthened in the second quarter of 2013. Deal volume was up 10% versus the previous quarter, with 223 deals announced. However, the quarter underperformed (-15%) in comparison with the same quarter a year ago, according to The Health Care M&A Report. [...] Read More »

Health IT Can Learn From Past Screw-Ups

Paul Cerrato | InformationWeek | June 25, 2012

In healthcare today, we're seeing many clinicians give up paper recordkeeping systems by patching in EHRs. Then they're frustrated because they don't see the productivity spike they'd hoped for. What's really needed is process re-engineering by EHR vendors and clinicians alike.

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HealthCare.gov Contractor Previously Jeopardized Personal Data Of 6 Million Medicare Beneficiaries

Aliya Sternstein | Nextgov | October 31, 2013

The contractor now responsible for stabilizing HealthCare.gov, under a separate, ongoing contract, endangered the private information of millions of entitlement program beneficiaries, according to federal investigators. Read More »

HealthCare.gov Crashes For Congress, Risks Were Known And Other News

Staff Writer | Nextgov | October 30, 2013

The rocky rollout of HealthCare.gov, the website for people to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, has garnered a lot of attention from the media as well as technology analysts. Here's our daily roundup of some of the key reports you may have missed... Read More »

Healthcare.gov May Be A 'Black Swan'

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | October 25, 2013

One in six IT projects face out of control costs, and bring much disruption, making them 'black swans' Read More »

HealthCare.gov Security Gaps Identified In Contractor Documents

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 17, 2013

A congressional watchdog investigating the troubled launch of the Obama administration’s online health insurance marketplace HealthCare.gov released a handful of contractors’ statements on Tuesday showing they were concerned about security vulnerabilities before and soon after the site launched. Read More »

HIMSS To Unveil HIT Value Model

Tom Sullivan | Government Health IT | June 11, 2013

Kicking off the Government Health IT Conference and Exhibition here on Tuesday, HIMSS executive vice president Carla Smith announced that HIMSS is poised to delver a value model measuring the return on health information technology investments. Read More »

HIX Analytics: 5 Steps Toward Real-Time Visibility

John Criswell | Government Health IT | September 9, 2013

On its own, healthcare is creating a data deluge, and analytics are evolving fast to bring value to many domains. Different solutions are required to be successful in the upcoming commercial health insurance exchanges (HIX) in which high-quality coding of diagnosis data becomes the currency for payment. Read More »

How Big Data Is Destroying The U.S. Healthcare System

Robert X. Cringely | I, Cringely | October 26, 2013

One thing I find ironic in the current controversy over problems with the healthcare.gov insurance sign-up web site is that the people complaining don’t really mean what they are saying. Not only do they have have little to no context for their arguments, they don’t even want the improvements they are demanding. [...] Read More »